Cloud Computing: Applications, Challenges and Open Issues

TL;DR

This paper discusses the concept of cloud computing, its applications, challenges, and open issues, highlighting its evolution, benefits, and the competitive landscape among major providers.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of cloud computing, including its applications, challenges, and open issues, with historical context and recent developments.

Findings

Cloud computing enables global access to resources at minimal cost.

Major providers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have significantly advanced cloud services.

Open issues include security, privacy, and resource management challenges.

Abstract

Cloud computing is one of the innovative computing, which deals with storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet [1]. It is the delivery of computing resources and services, such as storing of data on servers and databases, providing networking facilities and software development platforms over the Internet. It provides the flexibility of resources for everyone. These services are provided via data centers, which are located in various parts of the world [2, 3]. Cloud computing makes access to these resources to everyone on a global scale at a very minimal cost and significantly higher speed. These servers provide services to the users, which would have cost a lot of computational power to them if they had to buy them. The first mention of cloud computing was referenced in a Compaq internal document released in 1996 [4]. Cloud computing was then commercialized in 2006 when Amazon released elastic compute cloud (EC2). Furthermore, Google released Google app engine in 2008 and Microsoft Azure services were launched in October 2008, which increased the competition in the area of cloud computing. Since then these companies have done a lot of development in cloud computing.